Workers dragged tents from the Irish Hill homeless camp under the CSX bridge on Aug. 26. At its peak, estimates put the number of people living there at more than 60.

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Two weeks after the city dismantled a homeless camp just south of Downtown, the majority of the people who started out there earlier this summer likely remain on the streets.

More than two dozen people were placed in short-term housing and are being referred to a variety of services and programs to steer them into more permanent situations, social services and city officials say.

That's despite the efforts, they say, over much of the summer to match the homeless people with services that can help them. ...